Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting org.mortbay.jetty:jetty package, versions [6.0.0,6.1.22)[7.0.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.63% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGMORTBAYJETTY-32091
  • published19 Feb 2018
  • disclosed13 Jan 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jan 2010

CVE-2009-4611  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A patch was released on version 6.1.22. There is no fix for version 7.0.0.

Overview

org.mortbay.jetty:jetty is an open-source project providing a HTTP server, HTTP client and javax.servlet container.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Execution. It writes backtrace data without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator, related to (1) a string value in the Age parameter to the default URI for the Cookie Dump Servlet in test-jetty-webapp/src/main/java/com/acme/CookieDump.java under cookie/, (2) an alphabetic value in the A parameter to jsp/expr.jsp, or (3) an alphabetic value in the Content-Length HTTP header to an arbitrary application.

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